A young London based film-maker chances upon the diaries of her grandfather, who served in India during the British Raj in the late 1920s. She comes to India to make a documentary on the Indian armed revolution for freedom against the British rule by the young boys who dropped the pen to pick up a gun. Boys no older than 23 who her grandfather walked to the gallows. The boys she chooses to play "The Young Guns Of India" are however the product of modern India. To them, patriotism and giving up life for one's beliefs is what stuffy text books are made of. In a path-breaking narrative, 1930's British India and today's India run parallel. But the line starts blurring as the spirit of the revolutionaries from the past start taking over these modern Indian youth...

On 26th January 2006, Rang De Basanti (RDB) was released worldwide. RDB captured both the zeitgeist and the confusion of the India's youth at a critical juncture at their country's history. Crippled by corruption in the bureaucracy and polity, should they accept things as they are and reap the benefits of economic liberalization or should they take a cue from the revolutionaries in their history and risk lives of comfortable numbness to try and change the system? The media dubbed Rang De Basanti as "The movie that became a movement". The impact it had, and continues to have 8 years on, on the collective conscious of the nation is unprecedented. Rubaru captures the essence behind the making of the movie and its impact long after its release.